I’m quite certain I’ve found a bug with WordPress’s processing of input

  • jayp

    (@jayp)


    17 years ago

    I think I’ve got a real honest bug here.

    My pages were no longer validating for XHTML when they had been before, so I did some investigating and discovered the problem.

    First off, here’s a sample page:
    http://www.ocellated.com/2006/09/27/a-bird-that-moonwalks/

    Second, here’s the code that I’m entering for the embedded flash movie into the editor (using the quicktags not WYSIWYG editor):

    <p class="center"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:425px; height:350px" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/T2Bsu4z9Y3k"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/T2Bsu4z9Y3k"></param></object>

    Third, here’s why the validation error occurs. WordPress is leaving off the trailing `

    tag when it spits this block out. Here's the code.

    <p class=”center”>
    <object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” style=”width:425px; height:350px” data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/T2Bsu4z9Y3k”&gt;
    <param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/T2Bsu4z9Y3k”></param&gt;
    </object>
    `
    If I change the tags to <div> tags, then it doesn’t chop anything off and the page validates…

    And just to mention it, I did turn off the option “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” in case that was somehow related. It made no difference.

    Is this the right place to submit a bug like this? Anyone else experienced anything similar? Anything else I should know?

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    17 years ago

    Your post is messed up, so nobody can understand what you’re talking about. Could you clarify? What exactly is being done to the code you’re pasting in?

    Thread Starter jayp

    (@jayp)

    17 years ago

    Sorry. I didn’t realize that the forums had mangled my post. I’ve never gotten code to format correctly in these forums.

    The bottom line is that the trailing P tag is getting left off after the last OBJECT tag. If I look at the source code, it’s not there. But in the edit screen, there is a P tag after the closing OBJECT tag. So WordPress is removing it when it spits out the post.

    Before upgrading to 2.1.0, these pages were validating properly and had that closing P tag.

    Sushubh

    (@sushubh)

    17 years ago

    use this: http://pastebin.com/ 😀

    Doodlebee

    (@doodlebee)

    17 years ago

    You might try this. Or this.

    And to get code to work, you just need to surround it with the ` thing. (on your keyboard, to the left of “1”)

    Thread Starter jayp

    (@jayp)

    17 years ago

    It’s really simple. I’m wrapping an OBJECT tag with P tags in the quicktags editor (NOT WYSIWYG editor). WordPress is stripping the closing P tag, even though I can go back and look at the post edit field and it’s there. (In other words, that closing P tag is stored with the post in the database but stripped at the time WordPress prints it out).

    I am absolutely sure that WordPress did not do such a thing prior to 2.1.

    Thus it’s a bug. I’m submitting it to Trac (something I’ve never done before). I assume this is the proper way to report bugs?

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years ago

    Yep – and search for it there first. I’m 99% positive you’ll find it already in trac and already discussed here in the forums.

    But if I’m wrong, you’ll want to create a new one.

    Doodlebee

    (@doodlebee)

    17 years ago

    I agree – but I’m just saying that I’ve seen this issue on the forum before. I remember it only a couple of weeks after I got 2.1 myself (and had the same problem), and the threads I linked to – although they are talking about 2.0 – those solutions worked and got rid of the problem.

    Which is why I linked to them for you. I don’t think it’s bad to report it to trac – but I thought you might find that solution (the $pee one, in formatting.php – commenting out line 64 or something) works very well in the meantime.

    Thread Starter jayp

    (@jayp)

    17 years ago

    Thanks Doodlebee. I have to admit that i didn’t look at my source code for that solution? Why? Because that post was a few months back, and issues in Trac are listed as fixed when it comes to this problem. So I submitted it to trac and referenced the old bugs because I’m guessing it’s something that hasn’t been fixed.

    For example, if I wrap an image tag with P tags, it doesn’t strip the ending P tag. But at least for these object tags, it does.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    17 years ago

    Issues in trac are not always referring to the latest “released” code when they say something is fixed. They’re probably saying it’s fixed in the latest SVN code (2.2-bleeding).

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